Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-11

bad scalp wound, back injured; L. A.
Combremont, New York city, back bad
ly hurt, hips bruised Mrs. Charles Cos
tello, Boston, bruised, not seriously; j.
Herbert Cushing, Middleboro, Mass,
slightly in head and face; William Dew
inc, Winooski, VT, slightly; Miss p. ii.
Follett, Sharon, VT, head and shoulders
hurt, not seriously; Frederick A. Fisher,
Gloucester, Mass, slightly; Joseph Cen
ct, Scotia, n. Y, slightly; Mrs NJ j.
Graham, New Bedford, Mass, right leg
and foot hurt, spine injured, perhaps Sc
riously; Charles A. lIibbard, Cambridge,
Mass, slightly; C. NJ. Hosmer, Lowell,
Mass, left leg hurt considerably; j. G..
Hutchins, Montgomery, VT, back in
jured, seriously; Joseph f. Jacques,
Fitchburg, Mass, thigh fractured, badly
cut and bruised; Horace Juneau, East
Pepperell, Mass, bad cuts and bruises;
Mrs. Charles Kastner, Boston, bruises
and cuts, not serious; James kiley,
Burke, n. Y, left elbow dislocated, head
bruised; Michael Lacaillade, Lawrence,
Mass, scalp wound, back and chest hurt;
George Law, Philadelphia, Pa, splinter
driven through right eye and cheek-eve
destroyed; Alexander Laville, Green
field, Mass, cuts on head and back in
jured; August Bebpuf, Lynn, Mass, Sc
we're lacerated wound on forehead, bad
bruises; Joseph Libby, St. Valerie, p.
O., head bruised, eye hurt Emily Lowell,
Montreal, p. O., slightly Anna Murphy,
Boston, right cheek cut open, otherwise
badly injured; Joseph Maigret, Shawen-
egan, p. O., boy of H. slight body
wounds; Henry Mott, Alburgh, VT, in
ternally; George Parker, st. Adams, VT,
brakeman, slightly; Moses Poullier, Que
bee, p. O., right leg broken, skull frac-
tured, fatally; Frank NJ. Pratt, Spring
field, Mass, slightly; ID. Prev, Provi-
dence, II. l., slightly; David Remilard,
Brockton, Mass, slightly Marie Sadler,
Ormstown, Z. O., ankle hurt, slight
bruises; j. S. Shull, New Haven, Ct,
slightly; Howard F. Smith, Gloucester,
Mass, slightly; Henry Tewksbury, West
Randolph, VT, left arm and left leg bro
ken, hurt internally; J. w. futile, Tun-
bridge, VT, slightly; A. b. Veazey, Rut-
land, VT, slightly; Margaret Walsh,
Greenfield. Mass, bad scalp wound, back
injured; j. II. Wilcox, Bangor, n. Y,
skull fractured.
WHAT MIDDLEBURY MAN SAW.
1t was at first feared that two Middle
bury men were on the wrecked train.
Mr.. Homer Riggs, United States pension
examiner, was known to be in that re-
gion; and Mr.. Allen Calhoun also. But
neither was on the train. Mr.. Riggs had
gone over the road the day before, and
was safe in Montpelier; and Mr.. Cal
hOun was on the train going the other
way. His train was on the siding at
West Hartford the next station north
of the bridge, waiting for the train that
went over, when the accident occurred.
He reached the wreck before daylight.
The broken cars and the bridge were still
burning. In Il barn near at hand lay the
bodies of 26 dead, and from every side
were to be heard the groans of the wound
ed. The bridge, he says, was of the 'deck"
pattern, similar to that at Brooksvile.
1t was, however, much longer. The cars
that went over lay strung out on the ice
under the remains of the bridge and
reaching half way across the stream,
which is very wide and quite shallow at
this point. 1t was covered with heavy
ice, so thick that the fall of the cars did
not break it; hut the intense heat from
the burning cars melted the ice and let
one of the wrecks part way through. 1t
was cold morning, with the thermome-
ter below zero. Mr.. Calhoun describes
the sights and sounds as the most awful
in his experience.
NOTES.
Saturdays accident has recalled the
greater disaster on the Lake Shore road
near Ashtabula. o., December %, 1876,
when the train plunged through an inse-
cure iron bridge and fell to a frozen
stream 60 feet below, and then caught
fire. By this memorable accident 10 per-
sons were crushed, burned. drowned or
frozen to death. The disaster occurred
about s o'clock in the morning, in the
midst of a binding snow storm, and with
the weather intensely cold. There were
about l75 persons on the train, and "A
large number of those who were not
killed sustained painful injuries.
The railroad commissioners began an
investigation, Monday afternoon, and
have examined large number of wit
nesses. No material new facts beyond
those stated above have been elected.
1t has, however, been shown quite con-
clusively that the breaking of journal
on the rear Pullman car caused the acct
dent.
At last accounts there were still l6 I'M